Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich.

I went down to my baby's house and I sit down on her steps. She said, now come on in now, you know, my husband just left.

I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and I said that I had to learn.

The thing about San Francisco is that it has this kind of magical quality.

I wanted to get out of Mississippi in the worst way. Go back? What I want to go back for?

I got that first record out, it came out in '47... Then my name began to ring around. I began to take over. From that point, I tell you, Chicago was in my hand, all the more time that those guys had to listen to me.

Saturday night is your big night. Everybody used to fry up fish and have one hell of a time. Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich. And be glad of it. And they really liked the low-down blues.